Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Lesotho and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Donny Hathaway to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Gang Gang Dance,
Deadbeat,
Traffic Nightmare,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Urselle,
The Gladiators,
Jeff Lynne,
Black Flag,
Warsaw,
Lucky Dragons,
Eurythmics,
Donny Hathaway,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rapeman,
Dead Boys,
Robert Hood,
X-101,
The Buckinghams,
D'Angelo,
FM Einheit,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Toasters,
The Dead C,
UT,
Big Daddy Kane,
Amon Düül II,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Victims,
Arthur Verocai,
Derrick Morgan,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bush Tetras,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Subhumans,
Quantec,
The Flesh Eaters,
Camberwell Now,
Soft Cell,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Newcleus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Excepter,
Byron Stingily,
Agitation Free,
Symarip,
Fluxion,
Grauzone,
Gerry Rafferty,
June Days,
Interpol,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bizarre Inc.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Coltrane,
Jerry's Kids,
Danielle Patucci,
The Knickerbockers,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.